Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration

Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration

The reference guide includes detailed descriptions of all the features, plus an extensive howto for common use cases.

Quick Start

If you are Java developer you can use start.spring.io to generate a basic project, follow the "Quick Start" example below, or read the reference documentation getting started guide.

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The recommended way to get started using spring-boot in
your project is with a dependency management system – the snippet below can
be copied and pasted into your build. Need help? See our getting started guides
on building with Maven and
Gradle.

Spring Boot CLI

Spring Boot ships with a command line tool that can be used if you want to quickly prototype with Spring. It allows you to run Groovy scripts, which means that you have a familiar Java-like syntax, without so much boilerplate code. Follow the instructions in our main documentation if you want to install the Spring Boot CLI.